DOI Heft:
No. 156 (March, 1906)
DOI Artikel:The arts and crafts exhibition at the Grafton Gallery, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0151
Arts and Crafts Exhibition. Second Notice
frieze : " music :' by a. bertram l'egram
flaster frieze: " the harvest" by a. bertram tegram
the fifteenth century, instead of being forgotten of some gifted reader. Miss Louise Lessore
with the introduction of printing from type. Miss made a charming contribution to this de-
Florence Kingsford has, perhaps, approached most partment, and the work of Miss Jessie Bayes,
nearly to the spirit of the old times which inspire though more closely imitative of the outer
her art, for her illuminations, like the old illumina- characteristics of ancient work, is, one feels,
tions, are an embodiment of her thoughts. The imitative out of a romantic sympathy with an age
images that reading the printed page have evoked that expressed itself in art as in literature, naively
in her mind are set beside the print, embellishing and brightly. Besides a case containing the work
the border. She has worked from the same of Mr. Allan F. Vigers in the illumination of books
inspiration as the ancient designers, because she the Queen has lent to the exhibition a book of
has designed spontaneously from her own thoughts. some of Tennyson's poems which is decorated by
Not affecting archaic drawing or striving only at an that designer. It is a work in which he has
outward imitation of a re-
vived art, she has truly
revived it. If her art does
not come close in imitation
of the ancients in the out-
ward way, it comes more
closely in an inward way.
We can say of her art that
it is not a revival, but a sur-
vival of one of the most
beautiful arts the world has
known, and we see no reason
why it should not flourish
under modern conditions
of book production. In-
deed, by the exercise of such
art the most ordinary book
may be made a possession,
intimate and rare, dignified
by the expressed thoughts panels of organ case by oi.iver wheatley
131
frieze : " music :' by a. bertram l'egram
flaster frieze: " the harvest" by a. bertram tegram
the fifteenth century, instead of being forgotten of some gifted reader. Miss Louise Lessore
with the introduction of printing from type. Miss made a charming contribution to this de-
Florence Kingsford has, perhaps, approached most partment, and the work of Miss Jessie Bayes,
nearly to the spirit of the old times which inspire though more closely imitative of the outer
her art, for her illuminations, like the old illumina- characteristics of ancient work, is, one feels,
tions, are an embodiment of her thoughts. The imitative out of a romantic sympathy with an age
images that reading the printed page have evoked that expressed itself in art as in literature, naively
in her mind are set beside the print, embellishing and brightly. Besides a case containing the work
the border. She has worked from the same of Mr. Allan F. Vigers in the illumination of books
inspiration as the ancient designers, because she the Queen has lent to the exhibition a book of
has designed spontaneously from her own thoughts. some of Tennyson's poems which is decorated by
Not affecting archaic drawing or striving only at an that designer. It is a work in which he has
outward imitation of a re-
vived art, she has truly
revived it. If her art does
not come close in imitation
of the ancients in the out-
ward way, it comes more
closely in an inward way.
We can say of her art that
it is not a revival, but a sur-
vival of one of the most
beautiful arts the world has
known, and we see no reason
why it should not flourish
under modern conditions
of book production. In-
deed, by the exercise of such
art the most ordinary book
may be made a possession,
intimate and rare, dignified
by the expressed thoughts panels of organ case by oi.iver wheatley
131